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Dar-es-Salaam

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Early colonization efforts bypassed Dar-es-Salaam, because of its harsh environment; a desert world, with higher temperatures at its poles than many other planets could manage at their equator, the planets harsh environment made other worlds more appealing. The colonists who finally settled the world in the mid-twenty-fifth century were Muslims drawn from the Middle Eastern and North African regions of Terra, who viewed the terrain and environment on the world as a reminder of the regions that had been their homelands for centuries. The colonists named the planet Dar-es-Salaam, or "Haven of Peace", and over the centuries it became the center of the Muslim faith within the Lyran Commonwealth.[1]